Coffee - Micro Climate - Freshly Roasted 100% Arabica Medium Roast Specialty Coffee - 250 g (Whole Bean)

Freshly roasted, nice lovely packaging, if I talk about the notes of a moka pot brew with these beans , expect plums with cocoa and a background of berries.

I got whole beans of the Micro-climate. The coffee was pretty good. But I had to throw about 50% of the beans away because they seemed to have gone bad. I was unwell for 2 weeks in between so I stopped consuming coffee during that period. When I went back to this bag, it smelled funny to me and to others as well, so I tossed it out, instead of risking drinking bad coffee. The coffee was stored in the original white bag (which has a gas release valve). The white bag was sealed with the clip that comes along with it and all the air had been pushed out. This bag was double sealed in my own zip lock (but my zip lock didn’t have a one-way gas release valve). The problem with the clip they provide is that it only holds the top of the bag together - it doesn’t actually prevent air from getting in. So there’s a one-way gas release valve to release CO2 as the beans degas, but there’s no zip-lock to prevent oxygen from getting in. Oxygen / Air exposure makes the beans go stale much sooner. What I don’t get is why a bag of premium coffee (which costs about 25% more than the average market price) does not come in a resealable zip lock bag? Every single other roaster or grower whom I buy from packs in a good quality zip-lock bag. Some of the others are organic coffee growers as well. Not sure why Araku hasn’t updated its packaging. Now I know that I have the option of coughing out an extra ₹100 for the tin, but I shouldn’t be forced to do this by not putting a zip lock on the regular bag. I only did about 7 cups before throwing the rest of the beans out, so I wasn’t able to experience the coffee enough to be able to rate this as anything higher than good. Maybe if I’d consumed the whole bag, my opinion would have been higher. If Araku is going to position themselves in the premium category, they’ve got to bring the packaging in line with that positioning.

Excellent taste if you like it black.

My new favourite.